DID YOU KNOW:
- Around the world 59 millions of children of primary school age are being denied an education, and almost 65 millions adolescents are without access to a secondary school.
- Conflict and natural disasters have disrupted the education of 75 million children.
- A child whose mother can read is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5.
- Nearly 15 million girls of primary school age will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school,compared to about 10 million boys.
- In 2012 there were 168 million child labor workers aged 5-7. This is one reason many children cannot attend school.
- It would take $39 billion every year to send all adolescents to school.
- If all women had a primary education,there would be 1.7 million fewer malnourished children.
- Over 40 years,equitable access to quality education can help a country raise its gross domestic product per capital by 23 percent.
If you didn’t know,now you know………
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